My Daughter Monologue

“Just one more drink and I’m done for the night” is what I say everyday. Look, I have a problem, but I can control myself. My daughters, I love them with everything in me, but they seem to think I can’t take care of them anymore but I can. It wasn’t always like this though, at one time I had a husband, a big house, and my daughters loved me. Now my man left me, I couldn’t pay for the house anymore, so we had to leave and yes, I did turn to a bottle every once in a while but this drug problem they say I have is outrageous. I have two daughters, Lyric who’s 17 and independent , and Brooklyn who’s 15 and an introvert. Yes I know I’m the mother, trust I know, but they’re big girls now and need to start doing things for themselves I won’t be

“ Ma can I go to Trevor’s party tomorrow? No, you know what I don’t even know why I’m asking you, it’s not like you go be here anyway.”, said Lyric. “ Excuse me, you right I might not be here but as long as you live under my roof you do have to ask my permission to go anywhere. But you know what go ahead and go and be fast like all them other lil girls like I know you do anyway.”, I said. “ Who are you to judge me when you got pregnant when you were only 13, at least I got 4 more years on you!”, my daughter said. And in that moment I lost my whole mind and just went crazy and started beating, beating, beating and more beating on her. How dare she disrespect me like that, she doesn't know what I’ve been through or what sacrifices I’ve made for her and her sister. But as the weeks go by I do notice something in myself that I don’t like and that’s my heart, soul, and mind but most importantly how I treat my daughters. I realize I need to change, I want to change, I will change because I have responsibilities that I didn’t always care about but now I do. I decided to join a rehabilitation center and actually get help and I noticed that my relationships began to

Throughout the dance, we incorporate many ballet terms like tendon, chasé, pique and many more. We also try to incorporate a lot of space, movement, timing and energy in our piece to make it look more in sync. In this dance piece I am playing the role as a mother to two young teenage girls. The mother in this piece is an alcoholic, drug addict, an an abusive parent, just all around. She doesn’t try to be a bad mother but her own issues consume her and the only way to react is to take it out on her children. I like this role because I can relate to it a lot. I may not have experienced specifically an alcoholic or drug addicted parent but I have been neglected and have had to take on a leadership role at an early age. While I do like this role I also dislike it in a sense because I start off as the bad person in the story but ultimately get better. I loved working on this dance but I did have some challenges, some of which were just breaking free and not worrying about others opinions and just dancing for myself. My greatest accomplishment to me was actually dancing with my whole heart and letting my emotions come through within my dance moves. This story does have a happy ending for everyone within it. From the mother’s perspective I get mentally and physically better and my relationship with my children begins to blossom into something beautiful. Throughout this dance I learned that I